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Cazimir's suit labeled simply, "Anubis" is a highly advanced battlesuit that can be summoned at it's owners will from somewhere unknown. It features zero-point gravity thrusters that give off a minuscule amount of heat and accelerate the suit as if it …

The players leap into action, saving whoever they can while the military fires away at Jean Mougey, the ice talent on the shore. They finally put her out of commission. In the confusion, Adam Cleese runs off down the shoreline, and Norman Baits grabs the …

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The characters take the trip of a lifetime to the XSpace Lachesis Station. But while they enjoy vacation, disaster strikes. Hard partying turns to hard …

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The characters manage to congregate in the concourse, where hundreds of other guests have come for refuge. Cazimir has Bai heal everyone she can, while the others handle …

Donald Trump’s Talent Tax has gone into effect. So far it has not greatly affected any of the characters, and they agree to help Damien Xerxes catalog some of the items on the Lachesis Life Boat that is finally going to be returned to him. There has been …

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The players take a tour of Damien Xerxes' headquarters and begin to get an idea of the man and his mission. It seems that Damien found the technology for the Lachesis buried beneath …

The episode opened with the Life Boat finally arriving at the Xerxes complex. The staff and Damien himself were shaken by the death of the flight crew and excuse themselves to deal with the fallout. With April Lane and soon the rest of the press …

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(April Lane notes in her latest Public Sentiment from the end of this episode there is a wide disparity in some of the answers. Responders gave extremely negative responses to "Do you …

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The characters, desperate to get to the bottom of Project Charlemagne, travel to Washington DC to eavesdrop on the conversation between General Krieger and Senator Burr. Beneath the …

As disagreements crack the team's barely-united front, can they come together in time to stop a newly emerging threat? What will happen when Bai Sagina visits Freddy Koss, and what does his rejuvenation mean for the future? And meanwhile, in New York, a …

The heroes have retired to their personal corners of the world, focusing on loved ones, lives now lost, or individual accomplishments. However, in the shadows a new threat rises.
Maggie gets an email from her brother, from a past she no longer …

Season Two opens in the techno-future-cyber hellscape of fallen Boston. The world has descended into chaos and tribalism in the 204xs since the disappearance of the Four. The resistance, those who oppose High Theocrat Pence and the AI, Null, fight a …

The characters travel to Marion, Ohio where they find the portal into which Maggie disappeared. With nothing to lose, Trent leaps into the unknown, followed - despite their severe misgivings - by the others. They find themselves in a stone tunnel, …

Boy have our heroes been up to a lot since the last update!
The culprit who killed Bai turned himself into custody uttering that he had only a fuzzy recollection of the incident but felt such guilt after having done it he had to turn himself in. The …

The Public Sentiment meter is a rating of public feeling relating to "talents" invented by reporter April Lane. It is a numerical rating from -7 to 7 based on the following three questions:
How comfortable do you feel about people with 'talents'? (-2, …

It's only been a few days, but enough has occurred that Reddit is exploding with theories about the Lachesis. With what's going on, it only makes sense to start a new sub.
Here's what we know:
bq). Xerxes MicroArchitecture Quietly Purchases SpaceX …

_My fellow Americans, by now you have heard of the brave men and women who returned from the space station. So brave, so brave. But what is even more amazing, is that these men and women have come back with powers. These are strong people. Let me tell you …

“Angel of New Delhi,” Bai Sagina, Invited to Heal Dangerous Talent
New York Times
June 7, 2017
The US Government, at the special request of President Trump, have asked Bai Sagina better known as the “Angel of New Delhi” to heal the talent Freddy Koss …

Cazimir was the oldest of 2 children born to Iwan and Maria Soucek, he excelled at math and sciences at the local high school, he was also incredibly fond of soccer and Czech handball. Cazimir's father - Iwan was an adjunct professor in the mathematics …

We start our tale of a young man named Norman Baits. Growing up was tough for him, for he never knew his birth parents. Being raised by his grandparents and seeing all the other kids with their parents made him always wonder why he never knew his own. …

Cara and her sisters, Mara and Tara, are the sole heirs to the astronomical Saudill fortune. They just need their eccentric parents to die first.
In the meantime, the triplets were pressed upon to put their vast intellects to good use—that is, all …

Alicia has taken a keen interest in the group recently since their contact with Damien Xerxes. She is always around and never far from Damien's side. She is all business and coldly calculating. She recently has begun getting involved with the teams work …

Bai's innocence and precocious nature endeared her to the entire cast of Group B, she is curious, polite, and loves life. Her parents were relieved when the heroes took it upon themselves to ensure that not only was she safe but was having fun aboard her …

Currently in orbit, courtesy of Anubis. Freddy is possibly the most unstable and dangerous talent from the Lachesis incident. He exhibits beyond superhuman strength, enough to be more than a match for Adam and the rest of the team. He also has a …

Will involuntarily melt your brain with his brain.
Joshua Jones simple mannerisms and speech belie an enormously powerful mental destructive force. Cursed, or some might say, blessed with the ability to generate a field of mental energy so powerful …

Suji's newfound powers from the Lachesis incident have given her mastery over the mechanical and robotic. Her new start-up based in San Francisco, Applied Robotics, is the golden child of tech investors everywhere. Her new lines of advanced robotic …

Ai has had flirtatious tryst with Adam Cleese but then they parted ways amicably. Her talents from the incident manifested as the ability to withstand and project incredible heat. Her newfound fame has helped launch her culinary career and Chicago is …

Malika and Cazimir became fast friends aboard the Lachesis and have kept in touch since the incident to try and keep a cohesive message for the survivors. She was instrumental in the accounting afterwards for the treatment aboard the holding ship and …

Althought Farhad was cordial and polite to all around him his distance never endeared him to the rest of Group B. Certainly intelligent before his newfound talent have launched his IQ into possibly the smartest man on Earth. He has used his intelligence …

Adam H. Cleese (Age 24) is a former collegiate heavyweight wrestler for Michigan State University. He Graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Biology, with a discipline in Ecology. He spends most of his free time hiking, rock climbing, and attending …

It depends on who you ask.
If you ask Maggie, she would tell you that she's from the countryside outside Westgate, a metropolis in a region called the Dragon Coast, located on the continent of Faerûn, which in turn is located on the planet of Toril. …

All right, all right, all right.
Kristin Airey is a lawyer for a Orlando based legal aide that works with local shelters to connect homeless with their families and get them the help they need to get back on their feet. She was born in Yonkers, …

Jean has been on the forefront of a small group of aggressive talents who abide by their own law rather than get along: she posses a rebellious streak a mile long and enjoys the use of her powers for her own gain. She is a known and wanted criminal …

Clearly enthralled by possibility of greater knowledge gleaned from her short time aboard the quarantine ship, Doctor Meadows was then found again to be involved with a secret Army installation in San Antonio that was the base for experimentation upon …

Leon Idas was born the scion of ancient Sparta and has remained her guardian for millennia. While not always in the forefront and sometimes called away, he remains vigilant for his home even when abroad. He has had many jobs, lives, and loves but always …

From Chicago Sometime between 1930 and 1950 (Time-Displacement makes it hard to remember)... Raymond Lalonde was a Millionaire Business Tycoon turned Hard-Boiled Private Detective who at night donned the Vigilante identity of "The Rain"... his years in …